syria's complex friends further beyond its borders people are fleeing the violence to neighboring states with deadly clashes in lebanon. gagging the true guantanamo lawyers say they're banned from bringing up a legit torture inside military tribunals but the notorious prison still open despite president obama's promise that it's also. where it was in washington and the u.s. is not our father or teacher to punish us we have the same rights as they do i would always foreign minister talks exclusively to our team spanish channel saying his country will go as far as the hague to defend its asylum for chile in a song. hello and welcome to our team this wednesday i'm karen tara broadcasting to you from the

heart of moscow where it is five o'clock well the conflict in syria has long stopped ending up at its borders the drawn out fighting has seen a mass exodus of syrians and to neighboring states also clashes of pro and anti assad supporters in lebanon have left seven killed and dozens injured here's our middle east correspondent paula slayer. the crisis in syria continues to spill over into neighboring countries for the second straight night on tuesday several people were killed in the northern lebanon city of tripoli during tasha's between alawite and sunni muslims this comes amid growing evidence that massive amounts of weapons are being smuggled through live and on the also through turkey to the syrian opposition now moscow has condemned this in the strongest terms and urge nations not to supply weapons to the syrian rebels at the same time the turkish government is investigating. syrian links to

a car bomb explosion on monday that killed nine people many of them children in the south east of the country they're all growing concerns in uncut that the kurdish workers' party known as the k.k.k. is behind this glossed over no one has come forward and came to sponsibility the p.k. k. is regarded as a terrorist organization by and by the united states and by the european union and ever since the violence in syria has spiraled there are growing concerns that they are extending their influence and increasing their activities here in jordan to the situation remains fluid there are at least one hundred and fifty thousand syrian refugees who have crossed over into jordan male currently being housed in a number of temporary refugee shelters along the jordanian syrian border but jordan is a country with few natural resources it has its own problems of scarcity of water in its own fragile economy and it is struggling to deal with this influx of refugees the camps overcrowded we've also heard reports of the outbreak of tuberculosis and

other health risks the international community is struggling to deal with the situation the american president barack obama has warned that if syria moves or uses its chemical arsenal the united states will reconsider its decision not to launch any kind of military action in syria at the same time moscow has said that it cannot be any kind of unilateral action that there needs to be an international response that is agreed to by all sides and that consensus is reached. amman jordan. international politics professor jeremy salt from bill kant university says turkey has ignored many of the implications when deciding how to act in this conflict but your government didn't seem to realize the implications of what it was doing. to confront the syrian government anyone who knows the regime would realize that once the people could be controlled. they would all say they

would walk upon the picture. to open up the situation in syria would exacerbate the cage issue and we're also. in opposition most of the single user can. you get a year ago. if you seriously. do you hear what you and syria is reading that if you intervene in syria it will be an earthquake and i think that is very much the possibility that if syrian government can be brought repercussion straight white across the region very much obliged on their orders for each meeting to leave a lot. of these already having the same problems the sunni governors having with daily attacks by sunni muslim. muslims so the consequences of what is now going on and this is the more sponsibility show greater callers involved. predictable i could go anywhere later the head of the syrian friendship association in belgium

tells our team that it's no coincidence that serious violence spilling out to neighboring states. i do believe is that the violence what we are seeing you know this has nothing to do with the forum this has to do with destroying the people who also have a lot of testimonies from people in syria that a lot of the rebels are members of the syrian free army are foreigners so the violence we're seeing no it's not a syrian products into daraa that it's near to the jordanian border there it's not a coincidence that the trouble started at the border. because this underlines once again influence from abroad a lot of outside forces and governments are interested to destroy syria. to pick out iran first they have to pick up syria and i'm quite convinced if they would succeed to destroy syria the next door to get will be hezbollah in lebanon

and one of these these two allies or taken outs. they will concentrate one hundred percent. more from christianson of the syrian friendship association in just over an hour here on r.t. . lawyers defending guantanamo detainees say that they are being silenced inside military tribunals banned from any mention of all legit torture in the prison attorneys say the restrictions mean they cannot properly defend their clients they are set to challenge the rulings with pretrial hearings for five men charged over a nine eleven set to start on thursday and were delayed by a day because of a train crash in the us which disrupted the internet connection to guantanamo during president obama's first campaign he pledged to shut down the victorious president but never has archies more important i explain. as the saying goes

everyone remembers their first walk talk mode will be closed no later than one year from now and us president barack obama's first executive order delivered on a promise cemented over the years as president i will close guantanamo reject the military commissions act and it here to the geneva conventions i've said repeatedly that america doesn't torture and i'm going to make sure that we don't torture nearly four years after america's change took office one hundred sixty eight detainees are still being held at guantanamo awaiting their day in court before a military commission but even then the obama administration will not allow them to testify about the alleged torture and harsh interrogation techniques some claim to have suffered according to the government there is no scope. to have it it's defended six count of his torture in the course of treatment the government's

justification for that is that disclosing that information. court could be damaging to u.s. national security interests at a pretrial hearing at guantanamo bay the defense attorneys will challenge u.s. secrecy grooves and a litany of other restrictions that experts say undermine the right of detainees to receive a fair trial and defense counsel may want to communicate or send a letter you know provide the current updates on news information to inform them of certain things that that may apply to their case and every one of those pieces of correspondence is then run through a vetting system where the government is reviewing all of that to determine whether or not it's proper material the confidences are being contaminated directly by the u.s. government over the years the u.s. military has gone as far as dosing detainees with high levels of psychotropic drugs

. according to reports released by the pentagon get most prisoners were forced to take mind altering drugs often against their will before being interrogated a story first broken by truth out's lead investigative reporter jason leopold what the inspector general said was is that detainees were interrogated while they were on drugs that is known to produce or will end up producing unreliable information so then you have the government going into the d.c. circuit ok and arguing that all of the detainees statements are true critics accuse obama of following in the footsteps of his predecessor george w. bush by continuing a system that revolves around censoring defendants in the name of national security this is not a legitimate process how do you prosecute someone cheney years after the crime when

you have full control of their body and the evidence for then an entire period of time nearly eleven years following the september eleventh attacks the u.s. military commission is set to hear the first set of arguments in preparation for the trial of five suspects the u.s. president meanwhile is campaigning for his second term apparently forgetting about the monumental promise he made when beginning his first marine aboard i am artsy new. colonel morris davis has formally served as the chief prosecutor kuantan mulvey says the u.s. is trying to keep embarrassing facts wraps and explains why he quit his post. but think they're using the pretext that disclosing it will be harmful to national security i think the truth is that it will be an embarrassment to the country and this is more about what we did in the past then the potential harm going forward in the future what really put me over on the other side was being compelled to use

evidence obtained by torture i think folks could make a an argument whether it's morally justified to engage in torture to collect intelligence to maybe prevent an attack eminent but then you take that same information and hand it over to me and say ok now use this as evidence in an american criminal proceeding to obtain a conviction a potential potentially a death sentence was just a step too far and so rather than go forward with tortured evidence i chose to resign all right here with our team and to come this hour giving greece room to maneuver embattled athens asks the e.u. for some space while it tries to put in place crucial reforms which will dictate whether it gets our survival money. while in spain and sell it is suffering from a fighting recession that's thousands of horses which are being sacrificed by people struggling to make ends meet. ecuador is prepared to go as far

as the international court of justice in the hague to defend its sovereign decision to grant asylum to chile in a song which speaking exclusively to r.t. spanish channel the country's foreign minister said they're standing up to london and washington to protect freedom of speech and the right to personal integrity. all feeling good they would believe that great britain will realize how important it is to give the chance for a person to be saved so that he won't be living for years in an embassy no intrust that nation's government we also believe that london will accept ecuador's sovereign decision if that doesn't happen soon find a way out it was perhaps the only thing will be left with is going to the international court of justice in the hague so that we can grant freedom to a son in washington and the us is not our father or teacher to punish us if we have the same rights as they do julian a son is an example a symbol of freedom of speech but there are some countries which try to influence

things and limit his freedom and even oppress him so that he stops doing what he's doing we want to make them understand that we're protecting freedom of speech as well as a right to life and personal integrity. but that this film. has spent the last two months hiding out at the doors london embassy affording extradition to sweden on sex crime charges britain insists they won't let him leave the country and even threatened at one stage to wait be out to say to cease have such ecuador's president called diplomatic suicide rafael correa also says a song can stay at the embassy and definitely but is ready to discuss his fate if the u.k. drops the threat the wiki leaks editors convinced the sweden case as a cover to hand him to america for thinking confidential military cables but a swedish official says they won't send him to a country where he possibly face death. sweden's assurances don't offer much hope

to the wiki leaks to primal because he has got a record of violating his rights as a soldier's mother explains any new interview on line christina signed also slams was turned media for not doing enough research on all of the accusations against him read more at r.t. dot com. also there why have the road when you can float over at us firms developed a working hard for a bike that promises to reach places politically other vehicles ground that. greece is asking for more breathing space to implement financial reforms and spending cuts which have sparked years of widespread protests the prime minister has to convince the euro zone top brass later this week that he has done enough to receive the next bailout. it's worth thirty one and a half billion euros about which greece will default at potentially exit the currency you know it can't expect a task for two more years to get reforms in place economists janish

a vital practice says getting the delay will do more harm than good. i very much fear that the chance of pretty good and i say fear because these two x. the years are not two years during which i have a good few of the greeks off economy back on track but it is just more time during which the greek social economy will continue accelerate even accelerate russian television to decide things firstly what do they want to do next to the one in the euro zone or not and secondly how do you define the word enough when they say that they want you that they're considered to be not for the farms these are two fundamental questions oh very much fear that germany has not put up its mind around them yet this is a great depression in economic terms that resembling that goes for the united states. but also in psychological damage most people lol. on the verge of my mic

and then at age one moment depressed the next. step is going to be getting down significantly one way or the other it's just that you know the laws of nature you cannot violate the question is how it's going to be done will it be done in an ascii manner that gives falling out of that you're going to the drachma and then i expect to get a not for the that's you know what is going to be part of the sustainable up latin or rationally dealing with the crisis not just gays but also me that we in spain and they get us armies completely clueless on these matters. well it certainly has been a long wait but russia has finally joined the world trade organization let's catch up with our tease business team crossing now to the business desk katie what does this mean karen that is the multi billion dollar question that we will be addressing because some. national pride won't necessarily improve as a result but we take you live look at the benefits of that. it's about in about five minutes time for that. we turn our attention now to

a flooding tragedy that has once again struck russia's southern cross in the region this time for have died after a river burst its banks following heavy rainfall power supplies were caught while the water and sewage system and three villages around the city of say were also damaged officials say the early warning system worked effectively and that people were successfully evacuated from their homes just in time volunteers are helping residents with food and blankets last month severe flooding claimed the lives of more than one hundred sixty people elsewhere in the region. for a time now for some other international headlines south africa platinum belt could see tensions flare up further as trade unions demand higher wages last week thirty four striking miners were shot dead by police in protest at high unemployment and extremely low pay anglo american platinum which is the world's top producer says

it's received a demand for wage rises from workers in the region and other sites have reported fresh walkouts in the past couple of years south africa and towards several violent strikes and protests over low wages and poor living conditions. britain's royal bank of scotland has been accused by u.s. investigators of possible violations of sanctions against iran it's part of a crackdown that's already left the. case standard chartered facing a heavy fine for hiding illegal transactions with top wrong america is coming down hard on british banks it's already fined r.b.s. for money laundering two years ago and has been questioning seven major financial firms over fixing interest rate. at least forty eight people mostly women and children have been hacked or burnt to death and ethnic clashes between two rival groups in kenya the tensions and rivalry between the two communities over

land and water resources have been ongoing for decades a string of similar clashes eleven years ago killed at least one hundred thirty people. wildfires are raging in europe with spain and greece evacuating people to safety spain is suffering its worst summer blazes in a decade as infernos which may have been started deliberately scorched thousands of hectares of land threatened villages in their path arsons also suspected in greece where some twenty fires have wiped out the forests and all of groves being powered by strong winds in bosnia soaring temperatures and harsh terrain is making it hard to control the flames there. spain's descent interest session is felt far and wide among people there many have been forced to abandon their livelihoods and one that involves much loved animals that decision can be heartbreaking and i say it

a chef explains. for several months thousands of spain ers have been protesting loudly and angrily as the government's austerity measures spark rage among those who feel those cuts most painfully the recently published financial forecast for twenty thirteenth suggests that should madrid stick to its current financial policy things will be looking even worse for the pensioners and the unemployed. but while these people can stand up for themselves these four legged fellows cannot voice their discontent since spain plunged into an economic crisis horses have also become its victims this looks healthy now but a month ago he was barely alive he is the only survivor from a herd of more than ten seven more dead bodies were recently discovered by workers of this animal shelter in madrid they get absolutely the number of horses we have to care for has increased dramatically with the crisis who can't afford to keep them that's why they dispense with them we find them into

a condition known as did the excrement drink green water to survive keeping one horse costs around three hundred euros a month something many private families and horse riding schools cannot now afford the price are often being sold almost half their value for seven thousand euros instead of twelve c. boy this last us we're losing money is good if we can please cover our expenses and we're fraid we might have to sell our horses to slaughterhouses if we don't find the means to survive and that is exactly what thousands of horse owners have done since spain plunged into recession this year the horse meat industry registered in increased input of thirty percent. this poor suite is not so popular with spanish consumers so it is usually exported abroad to countries like belgium france and russia about eighty percent use for human consumption and twenty percent is

processed into any more food this show to hasn't seen any state subsidies in for months but private donations ensure it's survival expired groceries from local markets may not be much of a delicious treat for these horses but it's better than becoming food for someone else as austerity measures continue to strangle spain many of these once loved animals will most likely pay for human economic mistakes lexy rush of ski r.t. reporting from madrid in spain and russia is finally no member of the w t o but the news doesn't necessarily mean everyone will benefit you had now your business to ask a t. is that true hi there cowen well that's what some people are saying not everyone seems to be so excited about joining the club car and with warnings that it won't necessarily bring down prices or even help trade but w.t.f. x. but yes laughing is

a volley think that they're all big benefits. we're now living in the twenty first century do we really need to be the don't meet your. absolute way i think is an dispensable part of operating in the global economy operating and then the vironment bettors competitive that provides the impulses for change really sounds like you view it as a little promoted for change but other countries such as vietnam say that they are not reaping the expected benefits of the. well actually if you look at the dynamics of foreign direct investment flowing into vietnam what you see is that before w t o membership the country was receiving approximately around three three and they have billion dollars worth of investment after w t o accession this

figure of two to three full but this is really up to each country to decide how much it can try to reap from w t o accession because obviously w.t.r. accession benefits the pound also the accompanying policies of countries and their companies argentina this week filed the w two complaint against the european union. can be a w. chill sensually be an effective mechanism of resolving trade disputes yes so far actually one of the more efficient parts of the operation of the w t o is precisely in the sphere of settling disputes and this is something that russia could certainly use after w t o accession especially in an effort to lift restrictions against russian steel exports for example and the exports of chemicals there are almost one hundred restrictions currently now in the. systems against

russian exports abroad. took over streets and turned america will of the cold war trade restrictions on russia within days says the head of the w.c. the one nine hundred seventy s. jackson vatican member balls favored trade with russia even though the reasons behind the disappeared two decades ago. that u.s. business will miss out if washington files act false praise of the chinese production bubble all grabbing all news its boss still mills fell to cost but the small both global demand prices have been falling for a while now and there's fear ignoring market signals means a bubble that's about to. this head on into the markets check out the european ones to begin with stocks all declining this wednesday as we japanese. onto lines of global growth worries that greece said it needs more time to deal with its credit crisis and that as investors are awaiting the outcome of meetings between leaders

of the countries in the same today as you can see the footsie ever does are a day to trench in negative territory the year is as you can see off to hitting a seven week high yesterday while the ruble is losing some of yesterday's gains as doozy as the basket cars on the russian markets they are in the red heading for the biggest drop this month thousands investors caution and cheese days the repossession on the l.c.s. it's quite a different color spectrum. on the billionaire's race to be russia's richest man is all on as a deal becomes good then if mcalpin is tipped to bob at least she used all his to buying chemicals monopoly for last year for a fraction of its current value with sixty billion dollars mattel's is now just behind mining magnate views minnow is expected to top his rival when civil list still must still blockheads. the business for now current i'll be back and next so i have the us figures for you see how they're getting on all right katie many

thanks. up ahead of the splendor of russia's water in churches through the lens of an architectural photographer. my name is richard davis i'm an architectural photographer from london and i've been traveling in russia for the last ten years on a project fed rough wooden chair choose obviously i fell in love with the trenches

they are extraordinary ok it's a beautiful objects and the church is is a religious monumental obviously but it's also an object of wonder you know it's something that people can look at and it opens their eyes it betrays what can be achieved by using your imagination. nation of free accreditation free transport charges free. arrangement for free risk free. to tide free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free media donda harty dot com new.

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